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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Erin Hamlin, a four-time Olympian luger, will serve as Team USA’s flag bearer at Friday’s opening ceremony for the Winter Games.

Hamlin, 31, a two-time world champion and bronze medalist at the 2014 Sochi games, is the fourth U.S. luger to be tapped with the honor.

Hamlin’s 2014 medal showing broke a 34-year stranglehold of the podium held by German and Austrian women. Her star turn at the Sochi games was a surprise as she had not finished on the world cup podium for the two years leading up to the Sochi Games.

Hamlin, who said the 2018 games will be her last, said receiving the honor from her fellow American athletes has been a bit surreal, and she expects she'll be emotional.

"Winning a medal is the effort you put in and the time and the work and sacrifice to succeed and achieve something," Hamlin said. "That's all on me. That's something I've done. Getting this honor is different because its people looking at the work you've put in and acknowledging that. It's my fellow Team USA athletes who gave me this. That means a ton."

The Remsen, N.Y., native said she's more than a bit nervous about carrying out her duties.

"The nerves will be flying for sure," Hamlin said. "I slide that's what I do. Put me at the top of a track; that's my happy place. Walking out in front of a lot of people and even more people watching from home ... that's going to be way more nerve wracking."

Luger Erin Hamlin poses with U.S. flag after it’s announced Team USA athletes picked her to serve as flag-bearer for opening ceremonies. pic.twitter.com/tZFiFgkQsd